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...Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...filled room" vigil, and to find and cover every caucus, press conference and "secret meeting." They worked 18-20 hours a day under the hot Philadelphia sun and the hotter 45,000-watt lights of Convention Hall, and about the only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation but a man I owe $78 for lumber...
...knocking them out at Montgomery Ward. Last week George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. left Ward's board because of "certain differences of opinion." Director Lawrence Appley, who is president of the American Management Association, promptly followed suit. Counting the resignations of President Wilbur Norton (by Avery's order) and four vice presidents (by choice), this brought Ward's total loss to eight top men. Still there was no sign that 74-year-old Chairman Avery had changed his single-track mind about running "Monkey Ward" to suit himself and no one else...
...grim-faced Sewell Avery served the nine directors with an ultimatum: choose him or Norton. The directors, most of them old cronies of Avery who had seen him pull "Monkey Ward" out of the red and up to the second biggest merchandising business in the country, soon made their choice. The secretary of the company then phoned Norton at a Boston hotel; he "requested"-and got-Norton's resignation from his $100,000-a-year...
Ward's vice presidents were stunned. When they and Norton had threatened to quit last month if Avery's power was not clipped, Avery had suspected that it was a bluff to scare him off his high horse. Now he learned better. Vice Presidents Oswald Higgins, Laurence Odell, Charles Odorizzi and Earl Ward promptly resigned. By week's end, Avery was reportedly talking fast to persuade the other three vice presidents to stay...